Cleeve Lock

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Cleeve Lock
Waterway	River Thames
County	Oxfordshire
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Hydraulic
First built	1787
Latest built	1874
Length	133’ 7” (40.71m)
Width	18’ 2” (5.53m)
Fall	2’ 3” (0.69m)
Above Sea Level	138'
Distance to Teddington Lock	66 miles
Power is available out of hours

Cleeve Lock
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Cleeve Lock is a lock on the River Thames, in Oxfordshire, England. It is located just upstream of Streatley on the same side of the river. The village of Cleeve is on the opposite bank near Goring .

The first lock was built of oak in 1787 by the Thames Navigation Commissioners. The lock has the smallest fall on the river at 2ft 3inches (0.69 metres). The reach above it is the longest and the reach below it is the shortest on the non-tidal river.

The weir runs to an island below the lock, and their are further weirs between islands downstream.

Contents 1 Access to the lock 2 Reach above the lock 3 Literature and the Media 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Access to the lock

The lock can be reached on foot from Streatley, or by a track which comes off the A329 road to Wallingford.

[edit] Reach above the lock

The six and a half mile reach goes past Moulsford where Brunel's Moulsford Railway Bridge crosses, and then Wallingford with the Winterbrook Bridge and the multi-arched Wallingford Bridge. The Wallingford Long Distance Sculls take place on the reach in October.

The Thames Path follows the western bank to Moulsford and then goes inland and along a road for quite a distance before returning to the river. There is a very small diversion away from the river in Wallingford and then the path stays on the western bank to Benson Lock where it crosses over to the other side of the river.

[edit] Literature and the Media

In Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, the narrator recounts a tale of a long and anxious journey down to Cleeve Lock, caused because he had an out of date map showing an intermediate lock at Wallingford.

[edit] See also

• Locks on the River Thames
• Rowing on the River Thames

[edit] External links

• Cleeve Lock, Goring, Oxfordshire at viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk

Next lock upstream	River Thames	Next lock downstream
Benson Lock 6.50 miles	Cleeve Lock Grid reference: SU600818	Goring Lock 0.62 miles